Wealthy New Yorkers are spending as much as $50K tipping people for the holidays

Jingle bells? Wassailers? The yule log crackling in the inglenook? No, that’s the sound of a thousand hungry thumbs rubbing against a thousand index fingers.

The holidays are a time when guilt tipping, tipping fatigue and tipflation snowball. Who should receive a tip for what services, and how much that tip should be is less clear and more frustrating than ever.

But for the city’s most fortunate, gifting and tipping obligations run as long as Santa’s nice list — and can cost up to $50K, a well-connected Upper West Sider told The Post.

“A solid tip from a wealthy person is $1,000,” said the source, who asked to remain anonymous. “You would tip your trainer a full month’s bonus. You would tip your dog walker a full month’s bonus. And that goes down to the newspaper delivery man, the mailman, your manicurist, your hair stylist, your chauffeur, your bodyguard, your secretaries, your staff … anybody that provides any kind of service to you.”

For Monica Elias, the CEO of her eponymous New York media and branding company, “The list grows every year.”

Elias says this season she’ll be tipping and gifting “well over 100 people” — that includes everyone from clients to the man at her club who makes sure she always has a little something to take away if she has to run to a meeting before dessert. Moreover, she adds the old-school step of hand-writing a personalized card for each person to show her gratitude.